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THE WORD OF A GERMAN. EARL CURZON'S HINT.

Why It Cannot be Believed.

**You canno:" remarked Presi- dent Lincoln, "fool all the people all the time!” His experience was of the peopls of the United States, whom no one would des- cribe as credulous.

"Keep Your Eye on Mesopotamia.".

THE HONGKONG- TELEGRAPH, -TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 1917.

NORTH Y. SOUTH,

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INTRIGUES.

THE

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TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENT.

Shortly after six o'olcek last evening, six Shanghai men, tem- Speaking at the opening of a porarily resident in the Colony, canteen for soldiers at the Mid-mararambling along Queen's Road land Station, Derby, recently, West, when the sight of å stall Earl Carson of Kedleston paid a filled with ecld lemonade created high tribute to the work of the a thirst. With the intention of Probably he was right univor YMCA. during the war, and satisfying it, they prcoured sally, but if he had seen this war said they had fashioned a girdle three or four bottles from the he might hava added, "You c¤ of mercy and loving kindness stallbolder, and, sfter consuming fool the whole German people for round the world. He said it was it, were in the set of walking a wonderfully long time." This not for the spoils of victory, but sway without paying for it when capacity of the German, indir Er the sake of generations yet their progi sea was acrested by the idually and en masss, for being unborn that the Allies were strong protests of the man in fooled is the product of several struggling. They must go on charge of the stall. Without mors factories; his natural docility fighting until they had secured ado, they pushed him over hisatall, and saxious preoccupation the objects for which they were breaking bottles and glasses, and with his own interests: the striving. No country would be were enjoying the spectacle when s Prussianised education he worth living in if German arma lakong arrived on the scene. receives, which deadens charac-were allowed to triumph. After he had picked the stallholder ter and thought as much as it The military position at the from the wreckage, he roundly re-. promotes industry, the ponderous present moment was distinotly monstrated with the distarbers, mechanical discipline of the Army encouraging. He did not wiek and they retaliated by striking to which he submite inevitably. them to run away with the idea out right and left. The lukong The result is that authority knows that the end would come jast yet. found he could not cope with this that he will swallow and digest There was no doubt, however, now tura in the game, everything that authority tells that the operations of the last and loudly blew his whistle, him, sad (which is far more fortnight on French soil consti- with the reenlt that ominous) authority and individ-tated a very considerable mili-two Polias Reserve constables, ual Germans both baliere, arguing tary pictory. These operatione several District Watchmen, and from domestic experience, that had shownthe wonderful superior-another lakong or two came up) other natione too will believe ity of our artillery, which, had and a general fight took place. anything that they are told. fired four million rounds of pro- What followed was a chapter of " "Dark Forces" at Work

When this fact is cnce grouped, jectiles into the ranks of the accidents. The tanic of a Police

in Russia. German official communications, enemy.

Reservist was torn into abreda, whether hall-marked as such or

Petrograd. April 23-M He referred, in a passing refer, blows, were exchanged, and issued through the Press, become ence, to the operations in the East, fate was very hard on a lakong, said he possessed secret doca- Milinkoff, speaking at Moscow, more intelligible. Truth is irre- and remarked. "Keep your eye for he not only received a ments showing that the Germans levant. You say what you wish on Mesopotamis." In his opinion pasty knock, bat lost his garters were debating whether to attack to be believed, and because you the military power of Germany The Shanghai forces were ang Russia immediately or wait until with it to be believed, it will be was not sufficiently broken to mented by three or four others internal disorders" should put her believed. Without this the Pres-induce her to accept any terms from the North, and a pitched sian bureaucracy would be im- which the Allies might consider battle took place. Eventually at their mercy." potent, and without the Prussian reasonable. It was difficult the Northerners found that their bareaucracy modern Germany, as know what her internal condition foee were too numerons, and, rear," the German. agitation is wo far failing in its sitempts to the world knows it would be really was, but her military power one by one, they retired,

undermine the Rassian's morali non-existent.

and arrogance were far from either knocked out by the In the practice of this policy being broken. It could only be policemen's

resistance to the enemy. truncheons,

All few matters are left untouched feffscled on the field of battle.

along the front Germans and slipping away unnoticed. One by German authorities, always

Austrians are trying to get into man when he had got some little touch with the Rassion. Scat industrious, never hampered by

distance from the melee, hired a ricksha and was well on his way not to shoot, and attempt to per- ing parties invite the Russians towards making a good escape suade them of the necessity of when he was espied and the services of Trooper Edwarde, peace. who was there with his pony, south-weet front says he heard A prisoner captured on the graves in territory used for mixing with pige' food were commandereed.. Trooper his officers saying the only hop Exports Hongkong before bill-of |

Edwarda galloped after the man, was an immediate pesce, and hesitate to say that the producte

This correspondent does not and caught him.

for this it was, necessary to de- This was the story told to Mr.

any gleams of bamour or com- Austalt) of this Army Group. mon decency. Thus it appeare The fat that is won here is turned that, at present, there is consider-

intö lubricating oile, and every- able sad somewhat suspicious thing else is ground down in the anxiety among the public Iset

bones mill into a powder which is German recently evacuated in Hinder-

and manure." burg's glorious if somewhat retrograde morements in the west, way by descerated by the Allies. To meet this a message from the war correspondent of the Nord deutsche Allgemine Zeitung has been industrionely oirculated

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Meanwhile, bath. "front and

of the corpses of German soldiers J. K. Wood, at the Police Court morslise or destroy the Russian

are used for live stock-which is this morning, and it was also army so that peace conditions in its tara used for foodstuffs, I stated that, as the men

does not occur to him, apparently, leaving the Colony, the Police

would be dictated by the Central Pwers, and not be the Allies. In Galicia, enemy troops received

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through the Press. Herr Scheper mann esys, piously, "There

direction of peace. purely need be to anxiety leat men, will be revolted by the horror

Russians French or

of it; but the spectacle of the English soldiers!

taken prisoner were to be released. wired bundles of corpses fang" NO MORE" 'UM KAISER.if it was clear that their arm would disturb the resting-place into cisterns and vats, ultimately

pathies were in favour of peace. of German warriors, as the enemy to be changed into human food Annexation of Germany's Lost

In the rear, particularly in the must have seen, during his ad vance, how worthily we have dwell upon. It lingers, an evil -the thing is too nauseating to

Possessions in the Pacific.

south-western government of treated his dead." And he co-taste in the mouth, a dull smell,

Bessarabia, Podolsk, and Volby." clades, true to type, with a threat: if lime were being burnt", and Samuel Evans condemned as a distribution of literature, and Io the Prize Court recently Biruis, there has been a wide "Civilians will "hardly dare to it will be many years before the prize of war the German vessel many agitators, mostly dressed «went their batred against us on i rest of the world after the war Siar, which had been esized in as soldiere, are going from village] bendatanes and memorial crosses, will eat German food products, October, 1914, in the harbour of to village inciting the peasants. for they know that we have in onr

however hungry.

Tekeriki, in the New Ireland It can be easily imagined, how bands every means of reprisal.”

Here we have not lies, but group of the Bismarck Archipel disordere in the rear of the "How worthily' we have treated bis dead!" It is not merely that ghastly truth. Bat the psycho-ago, porth-east of New Gaines armies, if this agitation should A picturesque prociamation in succeed, would re-act on the the stalement is a lie, or that its logy underlying it is the same. authors know it for a lie, but that The Germans see nothing terrible pidgin English, which had been armies at the front,

Gr shameful in it, add therefore issued to the natives on the an they imagine that they have only other nations mast, they think, nexation of the islands, was read, the agitation on the front, the Besides the "dark forces" and tell the lie to the world to get take the same view. One of their This stated:- oredencs. There is a queer streak writera, describing the same pro-

Germane also base hopes on the All boys belongina one place, sctivity of the extremists in the

bavezifed innumerable vaulteänd tombe in old French churches

of childishness in their canning case in Romanis, aaya that the you savvy big master he come rear, where M. Lenin urges peace brutality; the feeling "I have Ramanians had apparently no now, he now feller master, he without annexation, explaining, only to shut the door and God knowledge of such scientific strong feller too much, you look, however, that Germany should will not see." This statement manufacture. The implication him all ship stop place, be small have Courland brazase it was goes counter to all the facts. The being that they lack the true feller ship belongine him. Plen- originally annexed by Russia, Germans have less glimmering of Kaltar, but had they had the ty more big feller he stop place The Germans in Courland are less reverence for the Allied dead than kowledge they would have belonging him, now become here than eight per cent. of the popula they have for their own. That, utilised it as the Germans have to take all place.. :. You look tion, which is mainly Lestiah. Heaven knows, is little enough, done. This frame of mind "ishin bat of that more in a moment. They almost incredible, but there, with-savvy him? He belongs British almost comic agitation, is housed new_feller fig. you Lenin, who is conducting this

out a doubt, it exista.

|(English); 'he more better than in the Palace of the ballet dancer, o strip the coffins of their for their dead. Can any sane lieb) new feller master he like are so exaggerated that they have Such is the German reverence other fellar.... British (Eng- Obessinsks, and bis proceedings brass and ironwork, to strip the ringa ever from the poor dead suppose that they have more him all same you piocsain alongs the air of comic opera,

Any reverence for the dead of him.... You do steal Mary be-harm he might do is outweighed fingers. They have despoiled their enemies? French graves of their headstones

Yet, with longine other feller black man. a hundred times by the good. oat shame in so that some Biron or Conut or have not the courage of their con- feller master he come and look emigrants, who, on arriving last action, they Bye-and-bye ship belongina now sense of the other returning Rtter of the German Empire victions. They lie because, out place belongins you. should sleep under a eait sentimentally or practically, it been talk with you now, you give themselves

Me night, lost no time in declaring: ancompromisingly auita them to lie. ""The word of three good feller cheers balongina sgainst a separate peace." a German!" Think what it new feller master.

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TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS,

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OST-Siamese cat, wearing

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